2025 Best Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
a bachelor's degree in
industrial engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #71 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 358 bachelor's degrees in industrial engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Industrial Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The ie bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on industrial engineering students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of industrial engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt industrial engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized industrial engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for industrial engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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